SMRITI IRANI AND EDUCATION

Education is a process by which a pursuer learns the essence of a subject essential to understand different dimensions and facets of life. It is a course of action under which a person receives the body of knowledge necessary to survive in the world. However, learning a skill through education does not make a person enlightened. Becoming expert in a particular field or by acquiring bachelors, masters, doctoral or professional degrees, one may not become an intelligent or enlightened person;  especially if the person is still suffering from common human ills and sub-standard mental qualities such as ego, anger, hatred, greed, vanity and selfishness. 

Higher education provides a body of knowledge but enlightenment comes by understanding the essence and spirit of life and not from the superficiality of the knowledge. Besides understanding life and the world, enlightenment makes a person humble, kind, tolerant, magnanimous and benevolent. Therefore if a person is not enlightened but holds a master, doctoral or professional degree then logically that person cannot be termed as an educated person.

University degree is one of the yardsticks to measure that a person has the body of knowledge and expertise in specific subject. However, human intelligence, ingenuity and competency is not bound by the limitations of university degree. For example - one of the top industrialists of India late Dhirubhai Ambani was a matriculate and his intelligence and skills were no less than any university graduate. In fact it was a matter of pride for the so called graduates and post graduates from prestigious educational institutions to work for him and his companies.    

Unfortunately degree holding buffoons have outnumbered educated, virtuous and enlightened people in India. Congress government in their sixty years of rule, have promoted flatterer, sycophants, miscreants, corrupt and mentally bankrupt loud mouths like Digvijay Singh, Mani Shankar Aiyer, and Ajay Maken. They do not talk about educational backgrounds of their leaders under whom they have flourished and became arrogant and blabber mouth. These so called educated and elite people in society have scourged India for decades by adulation to their incapable and corrupt masters. They are one of the buffoons that our modern education system and prestigious educational institutions have produced.

Ajay Maken, in his vanity forgot that Smriti Irani may not have the university degree but she is much more knowledgeable and enlightened than him. She has already demonstrated her skills and intelligence through various interviews and public debates over a period of time. These congressmen have quickly forgotten that their leaders are themselves not so educated and still they manipulated the bunch of high class degree holders for decades.  

In comparison to them Smriti Irani is much taller in her stature and she has earned the position with her intelligence and hard work and not by flattery and sycophancy. I am sure in a televised debate, Smiriti Irani can make Ajay Maken run for his knowledge and education which he boasts about. Somebody has rightly commented on the news article: "by loading a donkey with books do not make him a scholar". 

I have described in detail about the characteristics of people like him in one of my articles called “Philosophy of Education” posted on my blog called Eternal Feelings: www.sssinha.blogspot.ca.

Suman Saran Sinha
Toronto, Canada.
May 27th, 2014

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/congress-attack-on-smriti-irani-govt-says-unfortunate/

fait accompli

(An Accomplished Fact)

The resounding victory of Mr. Narendra Damodardas  Modi  in the recent parliamentary election was a fait accompli and beyond the imagination of political pundits and bigwigs of decomposed political ancestry ruling India for years by deceit.  His ascend to the political pinnacle has proven the power of  benevolence over the malevolence.  Throughout the election campaign, his interviews and impromptu speeches having the tints of simplicity, magnanimity, compassion and clemency has not only stolen the hearts of millions but also magnified his stature manifolds. 

His meteoric rise to the power is not a coincidence by default but the grand design of the cosmic munificence to save people of India from the continuous onslaught of deceptive governance. This proves that trouncing of malefic forces is not possible by people with ordinary humanly qualities, and neither  is it possible by the so-called convent educated confused people sitting in power to understand the intricacies of the celestial designs.

If we look into the background of Mr. Narendra Modi, then it is baffling that how a person having education from an average Gujarati school in Vadnagar and master's degree in political science from Gujarat University through Distance Education, can become the master orator, administrator and a champion of human psyche and empathy  par excellence. His style of managing the state of Gujarat as its Chief Minister has proved him as master of all business managers. This also proves that by studying management or engineering from prestigious universities or by speaking good English does not make a person nice and capable human being. It is the will power and strong desire to serve with the understanding of human emotions that makes a person educated and enlightened - not by having hotshot degrees from  prestigious educational institutions.

It is the purity of mind, strong personal character, belief in die-hard ideology, honest approach and thinking beyond self that makes a person unique and one in billion like Narendra Modi. Similarly, extraordinary people like Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and Nelson Mandela all had the qualities of benevolence, forgiving, magnanimity  together with spiritual  understanding of life. The irony is that the majority of our so-called educated (degree holders) people in society do not know how to be forgiving, forbearing, and compassionate. They have learned to serve themselves for their own betterment but they have not learned how to  make other people's lives better. Unfortunately, it is the major flaw of the western education system which has produced survivors more than the saviors.

In Mr. Narendra Modi, I see the spirit of Swami Vivekananda who had the vision of future India leading towards peace and prosperity. Like Swami Vivekananda, Mr. Narendra Modi has also spent his life in sanctity and poverty, selling tea at Vadnagar railway station, wandering in the Himalayas and by living the life of a hermit, practising 'Brahmacharya' (celibacy) by renouncing his childhood marriage. He is also an ardent follower of the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and his ideals. Before becoming the Chief Minister of Gujarat in the year 2001, his qualities were unknown to the world. This is the reason that logically it is not possible for an ordinary person of his background without the presence of divinity, suddenly emerging as a saviour of his state first then the nation by trouncing his powerful adversaries all around him, and mesmerizing the nation of 1.25 billion by getting their mandate in unison to govern India.

Therefore, those who believe in the teachings and philosophies of Swami Vivekananda and project themselves as champions in spiritualism should never forget that spiritualism alone cannot help in the makings of our future life better. We have to carry on the essence of Swami ji's message by actively participating in worldly affairs for the betterment of people and in the making of a glorious India as envisioned by Swami Vivekananda.

I take the opportunity of conveying the message of Swami Vivekananda while India's history is being re-written by quoting his words:

"India's message is that calm goodness, patience, and gentleness will ultimately triumph. For where are the Greeks, the one-time masters of the earth? They are gone. Where are the Romans, at the tramp of whose cohorts the world trembled? Passed away. Where are the Arabs, who in fifty years had carried their banners from the Atlantic to the Pacific? And where are the Spaniards, the cruel murderers of millions of men? 

"Let the Persian or the Greek, the Roman, the Arab, or the Englishman march his battalions, conquer the world, and link the different nations together, and the philosophy and spirituality of India is ever ready to flow along the new-made channels into the veins of the nations of the world. The Hindu's calm brain must pour out its own quota to give to the sum total of human progress. India's gift to the world is the light spiritual. "

"The whole world requires Light," he wrote to Alasinga at the end of August. "It is expectant! India alone has that Light, not in magic, mummeries and charlatanism, but in the teaching of the glories of the spirit, of real 'religion---of the highest spiritual truth. That is why the Lord has preserved the race through all its vicissitudes unto the present day. Now the time has come."

Defining his concept of new India, he said, " ...let New India arise...--out of the peasants' cottage, grasping the plough; out of the huts of the fisherman, the cobbler, and the sweeper. Let her spring from the grocer's shop, from beside the oven of the fritter-seller. Let her emanate from the factory, from marts, and from markets. Let her emerge from groves and forests, from hills and mountains. These common people have suffered oppression for thousands of years--suffered it without murmur, and as a result have got wonderful fortitude. They have suffered eternal misery, which has given them unflinching vitality. Living on a handful of grain, they can convulse the world; give them only half a piece of bread, and the whole world will not be big enough to contain their energy; they are endowed with the inexhaustible vitality of a Raktabija.

"And, besides, they have got the wonderful strength that comes of a pure and moral life, which is not to be found anywhere else in the world. Such peacefulness, such contentment, such love, such power of silent and incessant work, and such manifestation of lion's strength in times of action--where else will you find these!"

Think about the above words of Swami Vivekananda after shunning your ego, pride, anger, hatred and jealousy with peace and tranquillity in your mind and you will understand the message I am trying to convey to all Indians living in India or abroad.

Jai Bharat and long live Modi,

Suman Saran Sinha,

Toronto, Canada

18/05/2014